[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#703016: "Not authorized to perform operation." Appears in various circumstances ...

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Package: policykit-1-gnome
Version: 0.105-2
Followup-For: Bug #703016

Dear Maintainer,

 Not appear where to put the root password when mounting partitions with
 thunar or start synaptic. You also can not "shut down" or "restart"
 using the buttons on xfce.

See the answers below:


   * What led up to the situation?

     The problem started after an "aptitude safe-upgrade --without-recommends".
     Several packages were updated, including policykit-1 and policykit-gnome-1.     
     There are no broken packages.

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
     
     I'm using the terminal and doing the actions manually as root.
     (synapitic-pkexec, mount, halt, reboot etc.)
     I realized that polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 fails to start,
     so I related bug with policykit-1-gnome.

It may be a problem with one of the packages:
policykit-1-gnome, policykit-1, lightdm or thunar.
I specified policykit-1-gnome because the problem started after updating. 
I'm a basic, but enthusiastic user of debian. 
Excuse my terrible english. I am Brazilian.

I use xfce4, thunar and lightdm


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.14-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=pt_BR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages policykit-1-gnome depends on:
ii  libc6                  2.19-11
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0     2.30.8-1
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.40.0-5
ii  libgtk-3-0             3.12.2-3+b1
ii  libpolkit-agent-1-0    0.105-6.1
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  0.105-6.1
ii  policykit-1            0.105-6.1

policykit-1-gnome recommends no packages.

policykit-1-gnome suggests no packages.

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